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Saturday, December 10, 2011

NightBallet Press is extremely pleased and proud to announce the Pushcart Prize nominee for work published in 2011. Chansonette Buck and her chapbook blood oranges has been nominated. Congratulations to this fine poet!

Chansonette Buck spent her childhood “on the road” as stepdaughter of a Black Mountain poet, living all over the American West, in England, and in Spain. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley, where she concentrated on 20th-century poetry and poetics and wrote a dissertation on childhood trauma as the source for William Carlos Williams's poetic obsessions. She has a BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art, and has won awards for her visual art, her poetry, and her teaching. Chapters of her memoir Unnecessary Turns: Growing Up Beat have appeared in Why We Ride: Women Writers on the Horses in Their Lives (Seal Press, May 2010) and Polarity, and several poems have been accepted for publication over the next year. blood oranges is her first chapbook. Crisis Chronicles Press will be publishing her second chapbook, desire lines, in early 2012.

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NightBallet Press is an independent small press interested in the musicality of language and the originality of expression, with a commitment to excellence. Founded in September 2011, we have since published over one hundred titles for poets across the United States, including George Wallace, Christine Howey, John Dorsey, Lyn Lifshin, Alex Gildzen, and Margie Shaheed. In September 2015, NBP produced BeatStreet Cleveland! as part of the International Beat Poetry Festival. In June 2016, NBP published Delirious: A Poetic Celebration of Prince, an anthology with tributes from 70 different poets across the U.S., England, and the Philippines. We nominate annually for the Pushcart Prize and the Ohioana Book Awards. Subscriptions to the press are available. Stay tuned for exciting details, including book releases and feature readings. Night Ballet hopes to see YOU at a local poetry reading soon! Please direct all queries and comments to nightballetpress@gmail.com.

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He peppers my writing with an assault of errors.He steppes through the plaines of my poems.He impales them upon his malapropisms.He transylvanias the woulds of my versus.

His hands pass over my poemslike bats across the face of the moon.He fingers the keysin a commentaryof typographical errors.He pulls the wolves over my I'sthat obey his cacography.

Velvet turns to flannelunder his hand.What one might "feel",he would find "fell".—"Proofing" by Christopher Franke, circa 1971, used withpermission

Ezekiel 1900 Hours

"The path of the punctual man is deterred at all times by the inequities of the tardy and the tyranny of Poet Standard Time. Honored is he/she who, in the name of syntax and spoken word, speeds the latecomers through the streets of Cleveland, for he is truly the sonnet's keeper and the finder of great beer. And I will slam down upon thee with great minutes and furious seconds those who attempt to postpone and delay My poets. And you will know My name is The Clock when I strike My hours upon thee."

—by J. E. Stanley, used with permission

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